Music to our ears

You're never more than a few beers away from some music fan who can tell you it was better in the good old days, and that all modern technology does is hurt musicianship. Next time they're boring your socks off, point them to this recent piece from the New Yorker about the use of laptops in live music. Turns out even experimental rockers like Battles, or artists like Girl Talk who compile albums entirely of samples, like to do it live after all.